effed up global weather

[lummox]

i am in san diego and gettin wet. fukin rain. for like days and shit. and i hear that seattle is all sunny and warm. wtf?

[AlpineK]

SAN DIEGO -- Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said yesterday that they have discovered the first clear evidence of human-produced warming in the world's oceans, a finding they say leaves little doubt that man-made "greenhouse gases" are the main cause of global climate change.

 

Even if environmental changes are made immediately, researchers said, some parts of the world -- including the western United States, South America and China -- won't be able to stop dramatic water shortages, melting glaciers and ice packs, and other crises in the next 20 years.

 

"The implications are huge ... and in the short term, we're sort of screwed," said Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at Scripps, part of the University of California-San Diego.

 

Barnett said the findings were so significant that the Bush administration should immediately convene research for solutions on the level of the Manhattan Project, the World War II research operation that quickly developed the atomic bomb.

 

A Bush administration spokesman greeted news of the study with indifference.

 

"Our position has been the same for a long time," said Bill Holbrook, spokesman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "The science of global climate change is uncertain."

 

 

story

 

We're fucked no matter what, but we're double fucked with that idiot Texan in the White House.

[lummox]

you know 'idiot texan' is redundant.

[catbirdseat]

Badda bing.

Yo, lummox. When are you coming up to "sunny" Seattle? I'll buy you a drink if you show up to Pub Club.

[barkernews]

you know 'idiot texan' is redundant.

 

[Alex]

After 2 weeks of stellar weather in the middle of Feb, and another stellar week forecast, I am starting to "get all Californian" and hang out drinking beer on the weekends, knowing that the weather will be perfect anytime I want to go climbing.

 

Contemplating the drought conditions and wildfires we're going to have this summer if we don't get some snow soon, however, isnt that fun.

[jmace]

151.1 hours of sunshine february 1968, 149.6 1996, 123 so far this feb.

 

global warming??

 

From the GVRD:

 

"The snow packs on the north shore have reduced and while they are nice to have they are not crucial to the drinking water supply, becasue the region gets most of its water from rainfall."

 

they sure dont seem that worried.

 

J